This is the city: Los Angeles, California. I work here. I'm an ex-mayor. Los Angeles is a magnet for people from all over the world. Some of them run for public office. Inevitably some of them stray from the golden rule and rule for those that have the gold. That's when I go to work. My name is Yorty. I'm a dead pol.

If Greig Smith really gave a *&$ about stopping Sunshine Canyon, he'd be lobbying his colleagues more than he apparently is. He might have a good plan, but his grandstanding is an act not backed up by getting his colleagues to get on board...

I don't understand who keeps sniffling at who's related to whom. Isn't every one related to someone in that building (or at least sleeping with someone). And, last I checked, Smith was the only one who was actually doing something - not the "anonymous posters" (aka chronic complainers) that have never had an original thought of their own and stay up all night posting to bloggs!